ATA
ATA – Advanced Technology Attachment. This is a class of protocols for attaching storage drives to host computers. PATA (Parallel ATA) and SATA (Serial ATA) are versions of this. There...
ASIC
ASIC - Application-Specific Integrated Circuit. This is often implemented as a chip and its use is specific to an application and not general purpose, like a computer processing unit...
ASCII
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange. This is a standard format for encoding letters, numerals, punctuation marks, characters and symbols as numeric strings when transmitting them in...
Anisotropy
Anisotropy - the feature of a material having different directions with different properties when measured on some dimension, such as magnetism with its north and south poles, conductivity, refractive...
Air Gap
Air Gap – The physical separation between a storage device and an IT network so that there is no electrical signal connection whatsoever between the two, meaning that the...
RDMA
RDMA - Remote Direct Memory Access. A technique to load data directly into the memory of a remote device without transiting the source or destination device's storage IO system....
RNIC
RNIC - RDMA Network Interface Controller, with RDMA meaning Remote Direct Memory Access. An RNIC is a network I/O adapter or embedded controller with support for the Wide Area...
Zoned SSD
Zoned SSD – A zoned SSD has its capacity divided into separate namespace areas or zones which are used for data with different IO types and characteristics – read-intensive, write-intensive,...
AFA
AFA – All-Flash Array, as opposed to an all-disk drive or hybrid SSD/HDD storage array. An all-flash array is a storage array composed solely from SSDs or other...
Storage leaders weigh in on their industry for International Women’s Day
"I heard a comment the other day that tech is an industry founded by men making things for men" – Fidelma Russo, CTO at HPE.
Today, on International Women's Day,...
Storage news ticker – February 7
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Computational storage startup Eideticom has been assigned two patents: 10,996,892 for "Apparatus and Method for Controlling Data Acceleration" and 11,231,868 for "System and Method for Performing Computational Storage Utilizing...
Extreme inbetweeners: The rise of long-life no-IPO, no-acquisition, storage startups
Analysis: As mainstream storage suppliers have adopted and acquired HCI, NVMeoF, and object storage technologies and others, a set of startups have found themselves in a well-funded and long-life...